Training Log Archive: blairtrewin

Not terribly fast but a steady run, taking advantage of a quiet public holiday morning. Got into some nice areas in the middle part of the run, taking in some country lanes on the southeast side of the lake (as often in Switzerland, you can't go too far wrong following yellow signs). Never really flowed but no real issues with endurance. Achilles a bit sore at times, which is often an indicator that I've gone for too long without a massage. Longest run since June.

Felt a bit sleepy at times afterwards, on a day when I spent a bit of time on trains - using the day off (which I hadn't expected to have before I arrived) to go to the nearest reasonably accessible really high mountain on the Swiss side, Glacier 3000 (which, as the name implies, is a glacier on top of a range at roughly 3000 metres) east of Aigle. Unless you have plenty of time, and plenty of endurance, and more of a head for heights than I possess, you get there by cable car from Col du Pillon, at about 1500m (going north, rather than south, from there would have made for a nice run). Spectacular views as you might expect (and felt warm in the sun even at 3000m), and abundant evidence, in the form of meltwater streams and a big sinkhole, of the glacier's questionable future.

(I had been thinking of going to the Chamonix-Mont Blanc region but scrubbed that idea because of the limited public transport between Geneva and Chamonix outside the ski season. This turned out to be a good move, because I've just heard on the news of helicopters being called in to rescue people on a stuck cable car at Mont Blanc).